2007 National Society of Film Critics Awards

42nd NSFC Awards

January 5, 2008

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Best Film:
There Will Be Blood

The 42nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2008, honored the best filmmaking of 2007.

Winners

Best Picture

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
3. No Country for Old Men

Best Director

1. Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
2. Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
2. Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

Best Actor

1. Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
2. Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Actress

1. Julie Christie – Away from Her
2. Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose (La môme)
3. Anamaria Marinca – 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson's War

Best Supporting Actress

1. Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There
2. Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3. Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton

Best Screenplay

1. Tamara Jenkins – The Savages
2. Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
3. Ronald Harwood – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

Best Cinematography

1. Robert Elswit – There Will Be Blood
2. Janusz Kamiński – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
3. Roger Deakins – No Country for Old Men

Best Foreign Language Film

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile)
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
3. Persepolis

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. No End in Sight
2. Sicko
3. Terror's Advocate (L'avocat de la terreur)

Best Experimental Film

• Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind [1]

Film Heritage Awards

1. Ford at Fox, a 21-disc box set from Fox Home Video.
2. Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archives for the restoration of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and other independent films.

External links

• Past Awards

References

• Critics name 'Blood' best picture Los Angeles Times
• "There Will Be Blood" Leads National Society of Film Critics Awards indieWire